[tips] Re: Mel Gibson

[Robin Abrahams]

And ranting about how the Jews are behind all our wars? Somehow I don't think so.

"Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I was in an alcohol study once, BAL .08. I was R-A-V-I-N-G drunk!
Unable to walk, double vision, giggling hysterically whenever the
blood pressure cuff came on...

Annette

Quoting DeVolder Carol L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I'm struck by the fact the Mr. Gibson made those comments with a BAL
> of .12. Not that I'm a heavy drinker, but really that's not what I
> would consider raving drunk. But I realize that alcohol affects
> different people differently.
> Carol
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> Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D.
> Professor of Psychology
> Chair, Department of Psychology
> St. Ambrose University
> 518 West Locust Street
> Davenport, Iowa 52803
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> Phone: 563-333-6482
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> From: Marc Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Fri 8/4/2006 2:31 PM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: [tips] Re: Mel Gibson
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> Nice comment, Rick.
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> I like to think that I'm not "more me" when I cannot speak
> coherently, cannot walk with any fluency, and am prone to sporadic
> outbursts of things that apparently I alone find witty.
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> Of course, I've ever done any of those things. I'm just sayin'.
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> Good weekends, All.
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> From: Rick Froman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:41 PM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: [tips] Re: Mel Gibson
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> Are humans more or less their "true selves" when they are
> suppressing the function of their frontal cortex? I think it is true
> to say that inebriation will bring you closer to how you would act
> if you had been born with the brain structure of an animal. I don't
> believe, despite the abundance of quotes otherwise, that it reveals
> your "true self" unless you believe that a person's true self is
> found in their lower brain functions. And I don't mean any of this
> to defend Mel Gibson's statements. They may or may not be indicative
> of his true feelings. I just don't believe that getting drunk is
> the royal road to an accurate understanding of the true self. And,
> although I am tempted to ask for empirical evidence beyond the
> quotes given below, I am not sure this is an empirical question. It
> seems to have more to do with your assumptions about human nature
> and the meaning of the "true self", if there is such a thing
> (radical behaviorism, for one, would question the very concept of
> the self).
>
> Rick
>
> Dr. Rick Froman
> Psychology Department
> Box 3055
> x7295
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man
> gives thought to his steps."
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> From: Michael Scoles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 10:07 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: [tips] Re: Mel Gibson
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> I know the truth is in between the 1st and 40th drink. --Tori Amos
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> Truth comes out in wine. --Pliny the Elder
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> What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips.
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> --Danish proverb
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> Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up
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> in frost. --Samuel Johnson
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> The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and
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> to be able to blame it on alcohol. --Mignon McLaughlin
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> Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It
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> encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are
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> only a challenge to tell lies successfully. --Graham Greene
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> The inventor of wine is not called the Releaser on account of the license it
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> gives to the tongue, but because it frees the mind from bondage to cares.
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> --Seneca
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> There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. --F.
>
> Scott Fitzgerald
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> If you want to know a man, get him drunk and he'll tip his hand. If I like a
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> man when I'm sober, I kin hardly keep from kissing him when I'm drunk. This
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> goes both ways. If I don't like a man when I'm sober, I don't want him in
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> the same town when I'm drunk. --Charles Russell
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> Drink, in reality doth not reverse nature, or create passions in men which
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> did not exist in them before. It takes away the guard of reason, and
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> consequently forces us to produce those symptoms which many, when sober,
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> have art to conceal. ----Henry Fielding
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> In a world where there is a law against people ever showing their emotions,
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> or ever releasing themselves from the greyness of their days, a drink is not
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> a social tool. It is a thing you need in order to live. --Jimmy Breslin
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> It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is
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> disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by
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> sobriety. --Thomas de Quincy
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> Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling
> University of Central Arkansas
> Conway, AR 72035
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> >>> "Michael Sylvester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/6/2005 8:18 AM >>>
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> Can behavior that occurs in the altered state of being drunk be
> indicative of one's conscious intent?
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> Michael Sylvester,PhD
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> Daytona Beach,Florida
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Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
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